A doctor recommended a Germanwings co-pilot be hospitalized two weeks before he crashed a jet in the French Alps and killed 144 passengers and six crew members, according to a draft report from air-safety investigators reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Now, authorities are expected to recommend that those privacy laws be reassessed to be less strict when public safety is a concern, according to the Journal.

"There is no general rule that obliges doctors of pilots to report medical conditions relevant to their ability to fly to the authorities," Ulrich Wuermeling, a Germany privacy lawyer, told Time last year.

Though Germany has exceptionally strict privacy laws, doctors are allowed to report cases where their patient poses an "imminent danger," to the public, reports The Wall Street Journal.

But the doctors believed that reporting Andreas Lubitz, the 27-year-old co-pilot, to authorities would, "present more risks, in particular for themselves, than not reporting the co-pilot," according to the report.